10/29/23
16 Reviews, 8 Favs, 10 Follows
"You two actually fought your actual evil counterparts from a parallel universe? And I thought that was just science fiction" Blu Tembo said.
"Yeah, but ours reformed and changed their costumes to look like good guys," Ladybug said.
"Yours was like a total badass but psycho like Harley Quinn?" Panthera looks at the photo on Cat Noir's phone staff.
"Yup, he didn't fear death or pain. That's like twice now that I cataclysm Monarch and my doppelgänger on the same night. But he was cured by the miraculous Ladybug cure" Cat Noir said.
"Whoa, he looks sexy…Ah! I mean Evil! Evil! Totally! Sorry, it's just his costume makes him look….." Panthera felt embarrassed.
"Goth punk?" Cat Noir guessed.
"Yeah. It's my taste in fashion, gatito. Badasses is sorta my thing when it comes to superheroes. Like you for example, with nine lives and landing on your feet like a badass cat. Agh! Me and my mind!" Panthera feels humiliated with herself again.
"I get it, amiga. I've seen the real you with purple makeup and fashion taste. I don't mind being called a badass cat" Cat Noir chuckled.
"It's a pity Gabi's good counterpart never managed to reform him," Ladybug said.
"That explains everything like the opposites. The good Monarch should've helped your evil Monarch to see the outcome" Blu Tembo said.
"But too late now. And as I can tell now, I'm getting the feeling we're getting closer" Ladybug said.
"It's a puerta. I mean door" Panthera said.
"And the locks are missing. The ones we found" Blu Tembo took out the half piece.
"Let's see if it works" Panthera took out hers and they both handed it to the Parisian heroes to do it since they are the professional superheroes.
"Let's do it" Cat Noir and Ladybug put them together.
Placing it on the lock as it opened up, revealing a watery whirlpool. Cat Noir dropped a rock to test how fast it goes down. It went down at full speed as if in a sink.
"No way I'm jumping in there. The pressure could damage our bodies" Blu Tembo said.
"And I thought elephants have thick skin" Cat Noir said.
"Of course they do but they don't swim in whirlpools in real life," Blu Tembo said.
"Muchachos" Panthera bravely jumped in and she got spun around below.
"PANTHERA!" Blu Tembo gasped seeing her disappear.
"Damn It!" Cat Noir jumps in too.
"Come on, Elephant man" Ladybug jumps in with Blu Tembo.
Strangely they kept going and going until they reached the bottom of a new underwater world. Blacking out from all the pressure in their bodies.
x
Eventually, they woke up and were surprised they were still underwater but breathing fine which they should have been drowning. They felt their necks hurt like something was mutating them.
"Agh! Tikki, spots off!" Ladybug was able to talk underwater and tried to feel what was in her neck and strangely it was gills to help her breathe underwater.
"We're merpeople" Cat Noir felt them too.
"Technically we have gills to breathe," Panthera said, amazed at how it feels to breathe underwater without the aqua suit.
"And we don't have a mermaid tail. Just our normal bodies" Blu Tembo said.
"Incredible" Marinette looks around.
"Marinette, you okay?" Cat Noir checks her to make sure she's not hurt, extremely overprotective of her.
"I'm okay, Adrien. I'm just surprised we can breathe underwater" Marinette said.
"And I'm just surprised we are all alive. I thought we were gonna drown to death" Cat Noir said.
"But we didn't, Kitty" Marinette said.
"Everyone, deatransform now. Clawws, let's rest" Panthera detransformed and she felt gills on her neck too.
"Trunkk, fold my ears!" Blu Tembo detransformed.
"Plagg, claws in!" Cat Noir turned back to Adrien and felt his neck, feeling the gills.
"What the hell?" Pelle felt it too.
"Must be Atlantean magic" Adrien said.
"And strange how we are not feeling cold underwater," Luna said.
"When we are at the center of Atlantic," Pelle said.
"And fish everywhere," Pelle said, seeing many types of fish.
"We better keep going. Hopefully, there's another air pocket. Swimming will tire us out" Marinette said.
"We better use all we have, Princess" Adrien said.
"Si. Who knows if there are Atlanteans alive with gills like us" Luna said.
"I hope so, as well as the Shark and Dolphin holders," Adrien said.
"Please don't mention that shark holder! If he sees my kitten, he'll eat him! That kwami's last words will never be forgotten" Plagg said.
"Maybe I should hide you," Adrien said.
"Are you kidding me? That kwami is like a shark with 8 senses" Plagg said.
"Do you have any other suggestion?" Adrien asked while swimming.
"Fight for your nine lives," Plagg said.
Adrien glared at him for a dumb answer, "Claws out!"
"I was jooooooooking!" Plagg got sucked into the ring.
"Just keep swimming," Cat Noir said while swimming.
"Adrien, he could be serious," Marinette said before transforming back to Ladybug.
"Milady, one of my previous cat ancestors caused this and if the shark holder is real, he'll eat my nine lives alive," Cat Noir said.
"It's unusual for kwamis to be vengeful," Ladybug said.
"It's a possibility," Blu Tembo said.
They kept swimming through some ruins underwater. Nearby, some mysterious armored creatures spied on them and then swam away. It made Blu Tembo's tingling sensation like an elephant sensing danger.
He doesn't see anyone around, "We must go faster, I got a bad feeling about this," He said.
Panthera couldn't help herself with seeing fish everywhere due to her Jaguar instincts.
"Panthera?" Blu Tembo noticed her go for the fish.
"Oh boy. The hunting instincts of the jaguar" Ladybug noticed.
"RAAAWR!" She grabs onto some fish.
"Damn it! Not me too!" Cat Noir can't control his emotional needs when he sees fish.
"Oh no!" Ladybug saw him swim after them like crazy.
"Even as an animal holder, the predatory hunting behavior is in them," Blu Tembo said and tried to swim after Panthera.
Panthera used her spear to impale some of the fish, "Gotcha!"
"Luna! Enough! Stay focused on your human instincts!" Blu Tembo.
"I can't help it! This emotional need is too much! So much prey everywhere!" Panthera went feral.
"Snap out of it, Kitty!" Ladybug grabs her kitty's tail.
"MEEOOOOOOOWWW!" Cat Noir yowled.
"Here, kitty, kitty! You know you want it!" Ladybug held her laser which works underwater, "Tembo, catch!" She tossed another to him.
"Huh?! Meow! Rawr!" Cat Noir chased the dot.
"Ven aquí, amiga" Blu Tembo turns it on to get her attention.
"RAWR!" She chased after the dot while still holding the spear with the fish.
"Come get it!" Blu Tembo lured her back to him and Cat Noir.
"This is too much emotional need!" Cat Noir can't help it by chasing it.
Ladybug giggled and they soon found an airpocket to rest in. It took the cat heroes to calm down before getting themselves straight from their hunting instincts. Once they got out, they dropped their transformations.
"Looks like we can still breathe air," Marinette said.
"We are still humans. Thank god" Luna said.
"Yup, but still no sign of mermaid people. Not even a siren. What the hell is wrong with me with cat tendencies," Adrien slumped on the floor rock.
"It's instincts," Luna said.
"I don't know, gatito. It was like lust we couldn't resist. Agh, the gills are on my neck" Luna said, feeling it on her neck.
"Yeah, but we got food" Marinette held the fish up.
"Puuuuuurrrrrrr" Adrien let out a purr but quickly tried to hold it in.
"Did you purr again, Kitty?" Marinette giggled.
"Please don't judge me, guys" Adrien blushed.
"It's normal for you. Hell, your cousin makes peacock calls, I trumpet or growl like an elephant, Luna roars like a jaguar" Pelle said.
"Yeah, without having to be made fun of," Adrien said.
"Anyways, we gotta eat. We don't know if it's day or night in whatever we are in now. Obviously no other way back up" Luna said.
"Japp" Pelle nodded and started a fire.
Once after roasting the fish, they ate them around the fire.
"Now that we're sea people, are we hybrids of sorts?" Adrien wondered, in his thought, he deemed himself a chimera due to being a human sentimonster and now part fish.
"No. We have to be born from another half to be hybrids" Pelle said.
"Well, temporarily hybrids," Adrien said.
They looked up to see what was supposed to be a shark figure painted on the wall, towering over the people. Plagg looks at the painting with the other kwamis.
"Whoa, it's huge," Trunkk said.
"Evolved man?" Marinette said.
"Or a god," Pelle said.
"If he's part man and shark, his appetite would be something else than fish," Luna said.
"You mean they'd sacrifice people for him?" Pelle asked.
"Do you think the holder of the shark used the miraculous for evil caused a terrible price to become….a monster like that? Just like Monarch using too much miraculous almost drained his body and mind?" Luna asked.
"Or to remain in power?" Adrien guessed.
"A fusion of a holder and kwami has never happened," Tikki said.
"I don't know what it is but we can't let that shark holder see my kitty," Marinette said.
"Plagg, you were there at the time before Atlantis sank. What is the power of the shark miraculous?" Adrien asked.
"He has the power of Surprise Attack and blood detecting," Plagg said.
"What?" They all exclaimed.
"Yes, he attacks the opponent before they can react," Plagg said.
"Precisely how Great White sharks do to dolphins and seals, diving below and at full force, and BANG! They get chomped!" Pelle said.
"And smell blood too. It makes the holder detect blood and the name of the person" Plagg said.
"Oh crap," Adrien said nervously.
"And the miraculous of the dolphin?" Marinette asked.
"The power of foresight, the latest holder sensed the King's betrayal in opening Pandora's box despite Black Nemean's warning," Plagg said.
"Like Cassandra from the Greek mythology can see bad things in the future," Adrien said.
"Exactly," Plagg said.
Just then, humanoid sharks came from the water since they could smell cataclysm from a kwami of destruction.
"Herre jävlar!" Pelle exclaims in Swedish.
"That boy is coming with us!" One of them snarled, pointing at Adrien and Plagg.
"Not a chance! Tikki, spots on!" Marinette transformed and threw a rock at one of them.
"Gatito, get behind us now!" Luna said.
"Got it!" Adrien ran.
"Trunkk, flap my ears!" Pelle transformed into Blu Tembo.
"If they are after the cat holder, we can't let them have him, Chico! Clawws, let's hunt!" Luna transformed into Panthera.
One shark man lunges at Ladybug and tries to slash at her with his sawfish sword, "Back off! I'm not your fish food!" Ladybug dodged.
"Our king will see you suffer as the destroyer will!" The shark man yelled.
"Looking for me?" Cat Noir extends his staff to push the mutant away.
"RRRRRGH!" The shark mutant lunged at him and tried to bite him.
Cat Noir just strikes him down with his staff.
"Argh! Kill them all before they kill us!" Panthera almost but bitten.
"CATACLYSM!" Cat Noir touched a stone pillar to cause the ceiling to collapse on the hybrids. Crushing them to death but some managed to survive.
"Surrender, you're outnumbered," Blu Tembo said.
Suddenly, mutated dolphins showed up to stop the mutated sharks.
"This is our chance, Kitty!" Ladybug said while the dolphins fended off the sharks.